The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
JOSEPH CONRADAll roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
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It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.
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You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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Everything belonged to him–but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts, all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.
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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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